Rapid Eye Movies

Rapid Eye Movies is a German film label dealing in distribution, production and music. Since 1996 the company has been distributing highly esthetical and extraordinary cinematic gems. As distributor, ­Rapid Eye ­Movies triggered the breakthrough of ­Asian directors like Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Miike, Park Chan-wook and Kim ­Ki-Duk for Germany and popular Indian cinema in Europe. The focus has been extended bringing together filmmakers and longtime companions from a diverse array of cultures and artistic spheres – from music to film and visual arts – such as Christopher Doyle, Khavn de la Cruz, SABU, Ashim Ahluwahlia, Stereo Total, Mario Lombardo and Alexander Kluge and more to come to join the Rapid Eye Family, to create and produce movies that push boundaries and defy the conventional.
  • The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

    The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

    Classics

    1985

    1h.40min

    6 FSK

    This totally crazy cult musical about 80s boy-band mania from Japan teams up stars from the music and manga scene.


  • Women Hell Song

    Women Hell Song

    Crime, Love & Sex

    1970

    1h.16min

    16+

    One of the few Pink Films produced by a woman, this movie combines Buddhist symbolism with the genres of adventure and samurai films.


  • Wild Zero OmU

    Wild Zero OmU

    Horror, Comedy

    1999

    1h.39min

    18 FSK

    Inspired by George Romero as well as The Ramones, this Japanese trash zombie rock 'n' roll film comes up with a surprisingly inclusive message.


  • Pornostar

    Pornostar

    Crime, Independent

    1998

    1h.33min

    18 FSK

    In Shibuya, the neon-lit epicenter of Japanese youth culture, a lone perpetrator begins his orgy of violence against the ruling Yakuza.


  • Tezuka's Barbara

    Tezuka's Barbara

    Love & Sex, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2020

    1h.40min

    16 FSK

    To mark the 90th birthday of the legendary manga artist Osamu Tezuka, his son filmed the live-action version of his Manga, 'Barbara'.


  • Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

    Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller

    2016

    1h.27min

    16 FSK

    Filipino enfant terrible Khavn (de la Cruz) paints a frightening vision of a world running headlong towards the abyss.


  • Blue Film Woman

    Blue Film Woman

    Drama, Thriller

    1969

    1h.17min

    16 FSK

    Visually colorful, gritty in content, Japanese erotic revenge film by the master of the pink film genre, Kan Mukai.


  • Abnormal Family

    Abnormal Family

    Comedy, Love & Sex

    1984

    1h.2min

    18 FSK

    This erotic comedy is both a critique of the Japanese family image and a sexually playful homage to Japanese director Ozu Yasujirô.


  • Jam

    Jam

    Comedy, Thriller

    2018

    1h.41min

    16 FSK

    Three stories converge in a brilliant and hilarious finale from SABU, the Japanese master of darkly humorous arthouse cinema.


  • Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

    Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

    Crime, Love & Sex

    1967

    1h.26min

    16+

    This style-setting iconic film by Japan's pink film movement offers an experimental mix of genres about gender roles, violence, and obsession.


  • I.K.U.

    I.K.U.

    Love & Sex, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2000

    1h.13min

    18 FSK

    „This film is not made for masturbation. It’s made for collective orgasm.“


  • Orphea

    Orphea

    Music, Dance, Theater, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2021

    1h.39min

    12 FSK

    Alexander Kluge and the multi-media artist Khavn revive the Orpheus myth and use it as a starting point for a true revolution.


  • Happiness

    Happiness

    Drama, Thriller

    2017

    1h.31min

    16 FSK

    Japanese arthouse gem from cult director Sabu, where good luck and bad luck are side by side. With Masatoshi Nagase (Paterson).


  • Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute

    Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute

    Drama

    1971

    1h.13min

    16 FSK

    A mesmerizing poetic narrative about a group of teenagers navigating the confusing world of sexuality, desire, conformity and capitalism.


  • Fluidø

    Fluidø

    Love & Sex, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2017

    1h.17min

    18 FSK

    A post-porn multimedia artwork of bodily fluids that challenges gender norms.


  • Trouble Every Day

    Trouble Every Day

    Drama, Horror

    2001

    1h.41min

    16 FSK

    Claire Denis uses intimate imagery to tell the story of two couples whose self-destructive desires will have deadly consequences.


  • Ray & Liz

    Ray & Liz

    Drama

    2018

    1h.48min

    12 FSK

    Photographer and filmmaker Richard Billingham traces his family's tumultuous daily life through three different memories and three different eras.


  • My Talk With Florence

    My Talk With Florence

    Biography, Documentary

    2015

    2h.9min

    12 FSK

    Florence is trapped at an early age in a hotbed of cruelty. Sexually abused and raped within her own family, she runs away from home as a teenager.


  • Mondomanila

    Mondomanila

    Crime, Horror

    2010

    1h.12min

    18 FSK

    Tony knows nothing but tough times, living in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home amongst denizens of the underworld.


  • Cemetery of Splendour

    Cemetery of Splendour

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2015

    2h.2min

    0 FSK

    A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.